Why Every CEO Should Be Moonlighting As a Hacker

It sounds like a far-fetched idea, but Nico Sell, founder and chairman of the company responsible for encrypted messaging platform Wickr, believes it shouldn’t.

Speaking on a panel about navigating the unpredictable world at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in Laguna Niguel, Calif. on Wednesday afternoon, Sell told the audience that her non-profit, r00tz Asylum, teaches children how to hack into connected devices and that most of them have the ability to “shut down the power grid using an iPhone.”

“The biggest question is why that hasn’t happened yet,” said the sunglasses-clad entrepreneur (she says she wears them to minimize her “digital footprint” and boasts that there are no photos of her eyes on the internet).

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It sounds like a far-fetched idea, but Nico Sell, founder and chairman of the company responsible for encrypted messaging platform Wickr, believes it shouldn’t.

Speaking on a panel about navigating the unpredictable world at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in Laguna Niguel, Calif. on Wednesday afternoon, Sell told the audience that her non-profit, r00tz Asylum, teaches children how to hack into connected devices and that most of them have the ability to “shut down the power grid using an iPhone.”

“The biggest question is why that hasn’t happened yet,” said the sunglasses-clad entrepreneur (she says she wears them to minimize her “digital footprint” and boasts that there are no photos of her eyes on the internet).

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